In this work we prove that the initial value problem (IVP) associated to the two-dimensional Benjamin-Ono equation $$\left. \begin{array}{rl} u_t+\mathcal H \Delta u +uu_x &\hspace{-2mm}=0,\qquad\qquad (x,y)\in\mathbb T^2,\; t\in\mathbb R,\\ u(x,y,0)&\hspace{-2mm}=u_0(x,y), \end{array} \right\}\,,$$ where $\mathcal H$ denotes the Hilbert transform with respect to the variable $x$ and $\Delta$ is the Laplacian with respect to the spatial variables $x$ and $y$, is locally well-posed in the periodic Sobolev space $H^s(\mathbb T^2)$, with $s>7/4$.